Willingness to Love

The Trinity & Prayer as Relationship

English Transcript:

Those of us who have been sparedthe experience of the abyss of human violence,brutality, hatred, unforgiveness, indifferenceand all the other things that human natureis capable of as a virtue of its freedom,have the accountability to bear our daily woes,difficulties, disappointments, or the painsof our spiritual journey—or its failures for that matter—as a kind of spiritual ecology in which the destructionof the normal balance of human life with too much weighton violence and hatred can be re-balanced by loveand forgiveness and reconciliation.

Ж

For as Christ’s sufferings overflow to us, so through Christ does our encouragement also overflow. If we are afflicted, it is for your encouragement and salvation; if we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement, which enables you to endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 2 Corinthians 1: 5-6

Selections from the works of Fr. Thomas Keating for further studyon the nature of divine love that flows from divine union: